[nycbug-talk] Cogent and Sprint - a signal of things getting Oldschool?

[csnyder]

Guys, thanks for this thread, very informative.

Isaac Levy wrote:
> Big waves of upgrade: Re-Wire all of NYC with FIOS and light it all at
once (big expendature all at once)

And by all-at-once you mean between now and 2017 when the rollout is
complete. Guess which end of that Brooklyn is on?
It took over 20 years to finally install cable tv across all five boroughs.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D61438F934A1575AC0A961948260


Miles Nordin wrote:
> note that there are non-TV-like applications of multicast.

Stock tickers.
Weather radar.
Traffic cameras.
Large scale lighting or HVAC systems.
MMORPG world state.

... or any other one-to-many stream of information, obviously. Not
just high-bandwidth, but also low-bandwidth+many listeners.